Land Reform

Virlyn Jaime-Francisco
Pre Colonial
Subsistence
Economy
Communal Land Ownership
Spanish Era
Enconmienda System
The system of land owning imposed
by the Spaniards where in they converted
the land of the Filipinos as their
administrative land.
Hacienda System
American Era
Homestead
The land reform program of the
Americans. In line with their policy they will
grant the land to the farmer who could
make the land productive. However the
lands which are included in the program are
the land in Mindanao.
Third Republic

Agricultural Tenancy Act ( Manuel A.

Roxas )
- Republic Act #34
- Provided a 70-30 sharing arrangement
and regulated share-tenancy contracts
 Land Reform Act ( Ramon Magsaysay)
- Agricultural Tenancy Act of 1954
Allows tenants to shift from share
tenancy to leasehold.
- Land Reform Act of 1955
- Provided for the expropriation of private
agricultural land over 300 hectares of
contiguous areas, if owned by individuals.
 Land Reform Code (Diosdado
Macapagal)
Agricultural Land Reform Code of
1963
This code provided for the purchase
of private farmlands with the intention of
distributing them in small lots to the landless
tenants on easy terms.
 PD 27 ( Ferdinand Marcos)
Tenant Emancipation Act
Transferred the ownership of the land
to the tenants who tilled it and provided the
instruments and mechanism needed in such
transfer.
CARP Comprehensive Agrarian Reform
Program ( Corazon Aquino)
Republic Act 6657
Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Law
of 1988
It shall cover, regardless of tenurial
arrangement and commodity produced, all
public and private agricultural lands
including others lands of the public domain
suitable for agriculture.